big butterfly count

Step 1: Get ready
Sign up to the Count newsletter and download and print out our handy Butterfly Chart to help you identify and record the butterflies you spot. Butterfly ID Chart 2.2mb (.pdf)
Step 2: Join in
Choose a place and spot butterflies and moths for 15 minutes. Good places include your garden, a park, or in a wood. Use our ID chart to make a note of which species you see. Click to watch a video of Mike Dilger introduce the big butterfly count.
Step 3: Submit sightings
Record your big butterfly count sightings here.

Free smartphone app

Count on the move with the FREE big butterfly count app.

With the free smartphone app for big butterfly count you can carry out and submit your Count all in one go while out and about watching butterflies. Now available for iOS and Android.

View results map

See which butterflies and moths other people have spotted near you and across the UK on our big butterfly count 2014 results map.

All the results of big butterfly count 2013 are now available.

The big butterfly count has been brought to you by:

M&S Plan A Butterfly Conservation